St. Louis beat Boston and won for the first time in history the Stanley Cup – NHL news – Hockey

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"St. Louis" striker Vladimir Tarasenko scored a decisive pbad, becoming the fifth Russian hockey player to score points in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup final. Previously, Sergei Zubov (2 points), Pavel Bure, Alexey Kovalev and Evgeny Malkin (1 point each) were possible. However, hockey players in the seventh final of Russian hockey players have not launched.

During the series, the rivals alternated victories. First, Boston won with a score of 4: 2, and in the second game in overtime, St. Louis proved stronger (3: 2). After that, the series moved to the blues stage, where teams traded victories (7: 2 – Boston, 4: 2 – St. Louis). The future Stanley Cup winners triumphed in the fifth game (2-1) and could decide the outcome of the home series, but Boston confidently won the sixth game (5: 1), extending thus the decisive gap to seven matches.

In the past playoffs "St. Louis "alternately beat" Winnipeg "(4-2 in the series)," Dallas "(4-3) and" San Jose "(4-2). "Boston" eliminated from Stanley Cup "Toronto" (4-3), "Columbus" (4-2) and "Carolina" (4-0). According to the results of the regular championship "St. Louis" (99 points) took fifth place in the Conference of the West. "Boston" became the second in the East (107).

In the regular season, Tarasenko was second in the team's scorers standings, scoring 68 points (33 goals + 35 badists). Due to another Russian striker – Ivan Barbashev – 26 (14 + 12) points for performance. In the Stanley Cup Tarasenko draw, he scored 17 (11 + 6) points. Another 27-year-old forward, after throwing the puck in the second game of the playoff series, became the club's first player in 29 years to score points in eight games. playoffs in a row. On the account of Barbashev, aged 23, 6 (3 + 3) points in playoffs

"St. Louis" in the regular season finished fifth in the West, while in early January, the team ranked last in the overall NHL table, before winning a series of 11 consecutive wins. In mid-November, the club's head coach, Mike Yeoh, was fired by badistant Craig Berubi, who made a bet on 25-year-old goalkeeper Jordan Binnington, who had already played a match in the NHL. Binnington has played "zero" five times in 32 games of the regular season, reflecting 92.7% of shots on goal, playoffs he played in the 26 games (one was replaced during the match) and his percentage of thoughtful throws was 91.4. The goalkeeper missed several single shots in the last set, but he acted reliably, becoming one of the main characters in the seventh game (32 saves) and the Stanley Cup as a whole.

For St. Louis, the win was the first in the history of the final series. The club entered the decisive phase of the Stanley Cup for the fourth time. The last final dates back to the 1969/70 season, then "St. Louis' is inclined to "Boston", having won no win (0-4). Two other decisive confrontations – with "Montreal" – also ended in a dry defeat.

For the fourth time in a row, the club has become the winner of the Stanley Cup, which has Russian players. Tarasenko and Barbashev have achieved the title of champion for the first time. Tarasenko for this, it took seven seasons in the NHL, Barbashev – three. Since 1994, when the Russians won the Stanley Cup for the first time, only in five draws. playoffs Representatives of the country did not raise the main NHL trophy over them (2001, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015).

"Boston" is 20 times (fourth result in the NHL – around TASS) went to the finals and won the Stanley Cup six times, the last in 2011. The Slovakian defender Zdeno Hara, 42, could become the first captain of the team, which in this rank became the champion of the NHL more than one time. But again, he failed to achieve this goal. In 2013, the Slovaks prevented "Chicago", who won the final with a score of 4-2.

The last three games, Hara played in a special mask. The Slovak defender fractured his jaw at the fourth meeting of the series. Puck after throwing, "St. Louis" Braden Shenna hit the experienced stick player and bounced to the face However, Hara came out for the fifth game.

The Bruins for 49 years can not win the trophy on their own ice. The last time came in 1970. A year later, a year later, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr and his partners decided on the result of the final confrontation with the Rangers in the sixth match, which is 39, was held at New York. In 2011, the Bruins earned an outstanding victory over Vancouver in Game 7.